Relevant Quotes


Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillispie	(MD) Why can't I play like you? (DG) Because you don't hear it that way.

David S Allen	... the values of corporations, which emphasize efficiency, maximizing profits, scientific reasoning, and winning as opposed to understanding, have become the values of the public sphere. -- Democracy, Inc Introduction (Page 2)

David S Allen	As historians and social critics have noted, inherent in corporate liberalism is the idea that the corporation, not the individual, is at the center of protection. -- Democracy, Inc -- Introduction Page 7.

David S Allen	Discourse democracy seeks to identify ways to make possible an open dialogue among citizen through the creation of public space absent governmental and corporate interference. -- Democracy, Inc. Introduction (Page 2)

David S Allen	Discourse is viewed as necessary for citizens to come together and realize what problems they have in common without losing individual identity, to resist forces within society that seeks to divide people, and to begin treating others with respect and dignity. The democracy we live in today is fundamentally at odds with those beliefs. One only needs to listen to political talk shows in the United States to realize that concept such as understanding, respect, and civility are not central elements of political culture. Perhaps the never have been. But if we are serious about revitalizing public live in the United States, we have to give people a reason and opportunity to get involved. -- Democracy, Inc -- Introduction -- Page 8.

David S Allen	Over time, the stories journalist tell about their place in democracy have changed from claiming rights enjoyed by all citizens to rights enjoyed by a privileged professional group. -- Democracy, Inc. -- Introduction -- Page 10

David S Allen	The "consumer" has replaced the "citizen" in American society. -- Paraphrase of passage from page 10 of Democracy, Inc.

David S Allen	The structure of public life seems so entirely natural to most Americans that few question the fundamental assumptions of modern corporate ideology, including the idea that media content should be driven solely by questions of popularity, that larger corporations will provide better and more efficient service than smaller corporations, that technology can solve society's problems, and that an ideological individualism that values confrontation, winning, and capitalism is prefereable to an ideological community that values discourse and understanding. -- Democracy, Inc. - Introduction - Page 7

David S Allen	What if democracy is not about attracting an audience, making money, and winning? What if democracy is more accurately defined as the need to find a common ground, as the exchange of ideas between citizens in attempt to reach understanding? - Democracy, Inc. (Page 2)

David S. Allen	Meaning, under discourse theory, is discursively redeemed; it does not exist solely in the author's intent but in the complex linguistic relationship between speaker and hearer. The key to creating that ethical discourse is allowing all citizens who want to participate to do so. -- Democracy, Inc. (Page 40)

David S. Allen	Reliance on expert knowledge does not come without cost, however. Not only does it devalue the role of the public in democracy, it also leads to the formation of powerful occupational groups that attempt to secure for themselves an area of knowledge that will insure their power. -- Democracy, Inc (Page 52)

James Allen	In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

Battle of Belief in World War II American Radio Works	Wherever authoritarian regimes, political conflict or civil wars exist, there is black radio.

Henri Frederic Amiel	Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

Walter Annenberg	All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

Aristotle	Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Agile Programming as described on Wikipedia	There are many specific agile development methods. Most promote development iterations, teamwork, collaboration, and process adaptability throughout the life-cycle of the project.

Media Democracy as described on Wikipedia	... that the health of the democratic political system depends on the efficient, accurate, and complete transmission of social, political, and cultural information in society; that the media are the conduits of this information and should act in the public interest; that the mass media have increasingly been unable and uninterested in fulfilling this role due to increased concentration of ownership and commercial pressures; and that this undermines democracy as voters and citizens are unable to participate knowledgeably in public policy debates. Without an informed and engaged citizenry, policy issues become defined by political and corporate elites.

Richard Bach	Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

George Bancroft	The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

L. Frank Baum	Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

Ludwig van Beethoven	Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Jeremy Bentham	As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.

Jeremy Bentham	It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.

Jeremy Bentham	The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Carl Bernstein	The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

Annie Besant	Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Bible - Mathew 7:2	For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.

David Bohm	A change in meaning is a change in being.

David Bohm	During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts. Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale...

Napoleon Bonaparte	History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte	What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Bono	Music can change the world because it can change people.

David Brock	It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

David Brooks	When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

Whitney A Brown	The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

Lenny Bruce	Communism is like one big phone company.

Lenny Bruce	If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

Lenny Bruce	The "what should be" never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no "what should be," there is only what is.

Lenny Bruce	The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.

Gautama Buddha	However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Gautama Buddha	There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Gautama Buddha	Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

Jacob Burckhardt	Save us from the simplifiers.

Caine	...the chameleon... A small lizard. He has the great gift of changing the color of his skin, that he may hide himself from predators. ... Yet he never changes himself. ... He is still... a chameleon. -- "Kung Fu" The Hoots 1973 Season 2, Episode 10

Caine	Can anyone be truly free who serves only himself? -- "Kung Fu" Elixir -- 1973 Season 2, Episode 11

Caine	Does not the law serve the truth? - "Kung Fu" Empty Pages of a Dead Book 1973 Season 2, Episode 13

Caine	Faced with two evils, must not every man choose?

Caine	From a single action, you draw an entire universe. Could you not see I had nothing to protect? -- Kung Fu television series 1972

Caine	Hate is the tomb you weave. It will not save you from your suffering.

Caine	I am puzzled. -- Master Po -- That is the beginning of wisdom. -- "Kung Fu" The Hoots 1973 Season 2, Episode 10

Caine	I could not say what I did not see. -- "Kung Fu" Empty Pages of a Dead Book 1973 Season 2, Episode 13

Caine	I seek not to know all the answers but to understand the questions. -- Kung Fu Television Series 1972 - Episode # 14

Caine	That we are possessed by what we would possess; held in bondage to earth and vested things by the attachments we form for them.. Even so holy a thing as a chalice. So slight a thing as a pebble. -- 1973 Season Two Kung Fu Series - The Chalice.

Caine	The cobra seeks to fix the eye of the bird before it strikes. In that moment of looking at each other each accepts his role, predictor and prey. Fear creates the victim. Yet something in the bird makes it seek the eye of the cobra. -- Kung Fu television series 1972

Caine	The taking of a life does no one honor. -- Kung Fu television series 1972

Caine	The years have been good. Quiet and measured. Flowing slowly like water. -- Kung Fu television series 1972

Caine	To fight for yourself is right. To die vainly without hope of winning is the act of stupid men. -- Kung Fu Television Series 1972

Caine	To know nature is to put oneself in perfect harmony with the universe. Heaven and earth are one. So must we seek a discipline of mind and body within ourselves. -- Kung Fu television series 1972

Caine	We must face the truth, however great the cost. -- "Kung Fu" The Passion of Chen Yi -- 1974 Episode 34

Caine	When words are no better than silence, one should remain silent. - Kung Fu Television Series 1972

Caine	When you cease to strive to understand then you will know without understanding.

Caine	You think wisdom is a flower for you to pluck. It is a mountain and it must be climbed. -- Kung Fu Television Series - Season Two Episode # 23 - The Tong

Caine and Master Kan	Caine - What is my duty to the law? Master Kan - You must assist the law to serve justice. Caine - I have seen a law broken. Would I server justice if I let it go unpunished? Master Kan - What is the purpose of this law? Caine - Discipline. Master Kan - And who is served by this discipline? Caine - Each one who obeys the law. Master Kan - Then to break the law of self discipline denies justice only to one's self. Caine - The same with all laws? Master Kan - Consider if you break do you deny justice only to your self. -- - "Kung Fu" Empty Pages of a Dead Book 1973 Season 2, Episode 13

Caine and Master Kan	Caine, "Beauty differs from being to being". Master Kan, "Beauty is constant as is the truth. Seek and find what is the truth". Caine, "What is the truth of man, Master". Master Kan, "It has been said that a man is three things, what he thinks he is, what others think he is, and what he really is. Which of these do you feel is the truth"? Caine, "What he really is, but if a man is wrong about himself, and others are wrong about him, who is left to say what he really is"? Master Kan, "At what point in time can a man be fixed from force if he is to live and grow". Caine, "He must change". Master Kan, "As the lowly caterpillar transforms itself into a finer and more beautiful creature". Kung Fu" 1973 Season 2, Episode 14

Caine and Master Kan	Caine, “We swore an oath of friendship, master.” Master Kan, “You are speaking of disciple Han?” Caine, “Yes, master.” Master Kan, “And he no longer feels bound by this oath?” Caine, “Because of the contest yesterday, between us, in which he was defeated.” Master Kan, “And you feel as though you have lost something?” Caine, “I do.” Master Kan, “What will you do now with your oath?” Caine, “Is not an oath eternal?” Master Kan, “But how can you control such a thing as a friendship? Which requires the assent of two persons. It is well to consider deeply, before binding yourself to an ideal, cause, or a man. But what is an oath worth that binds a man to an unachievable task?” Caine, “He is still angry, it troubles me. I do not know how to answer to his hatred.” Master Kan, “How else, but with love. One cannot always keep a friend. When that friend believes that one has wronged him.” Caine, “But, I have not wronged him. He is mistaken.” Master Kan, “Each man has the right to choose his enemies and his friends. He may choose unwisely, but the decision is his alone, to make. Then he must live with the consequences. And so must his enemies, and his friends.” -- "Kung Fu" The Crossties 1974 Season 2

Caine and Master Kan	Master, do we seek victory in contention? Seek rather not to contend. But shall we not then be defeated? We know that where there is no contention, there is neither defeat nor victory. The supple willow does not contend against the storm, yet it survives. -- Kung Fu television series 1972

Italo Calvino	For these ports I could not draw a route on the map or set a date for the landing. At times all I need is a brief glimpse, an opening in the midst of an incongruous landscape, a glint of lights in the fog, the dialogue between two passersby meeting in the crowd, and I think that setting out from there, I will put together, piece by piece, the perfect city made of fragments mixed with the rest, of instants separated by intervals, of signals one sends out, not knowing who receives them. If I tell you that the city toward which my journey tends is discontinuous in space and time, now scattered, now more condensed, you must not believe that the search for it can stop. Perhaps while we speak, it is rising, scattered, within the confines of your empire; you can hunt for it, but only in the way I have said. -- Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino	The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space. -- Invisible Cities

George Canning	I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

George Carlin	By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

George Carlin	Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

Dale Carnegie	Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

George Washington Carver	How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver	When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

George Washington Carver	Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Noam Chomsky	All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Noam Chomsky	Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

Noam Chomsky	As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Noam Chomsky	Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

Noam Chomsky	Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Noam Chomsky	Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

Noam Chomsky	Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

Noam Chomsky	If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Noam Chomsky	One conception of democracy has it that a democratic society is one in which the public has the means to participate in some meaningful way in the management of their own affairs and the means of information are open and free ... An alternative conception of democracy is that the public must be barred from managing of their own affairs and the means of information must be kept narrowly and rigidly controlled. -- Media Control - The Spectacular Achievement of Propaganda

Noam Chomsky	Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

Noam Chomsky	States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

Noam Chomsky	The concept of “democratizing the media” has no real meaning within the terms of political discourse in the United States. In fact, the phrase has a paradoxical or even vaguely subversive ring to it. Citizen participation would be considered an infringement on freedom of the press, a blow struck against the independence of the media that would distort the mission they have undertaken to inform the public without fear or favor... this is because the general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience, and driven from the arena of political debate and action, if democracy is to survive. -- Chapter 1: Democracy and the Media," Necessary Illusions

Noam Chomsky	The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

Noam Chomsky	The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Noam Chomsky	The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - "indoctrination," we might say - exercised through the mass media.

Noam Chomsky	To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

Noam Chomsky	Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

Noam Chomsky	You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

Winston Churchill	Great and good are seldom the same man.

Winston Churchill	History is written by the victors.

Winston Churchill	History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Winston Churchill	It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Grover Cleveland	The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.

Bill Clinton	We can't make the perfect the enemy of the good.

Confucius	Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.

Confucius	Study the past if you would define the future.

Confucius	To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.

Walter Cronkite	I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.

Walter Cronkite	Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

Ward Cunningham	I wouldn't think to start a program from first principles. If I want to make a program, I want to find the people who know kind of how to do it, and say, come sit with me, come help me get started. Let's talk to each other.

Ward Cunningham	Scott -- You seem to have a technical solution to what I might call "dysfunctional divergence" of thought. Blogs encourage divergence, perhaps to the point of dysfunction. Wikis encourage convergence, else edit wars produce dysfunction. There is surely opportunity to invent in the middle ground. -- In reference to the Do Good Gauge

Ward Cunningham	There is a programming smell here… which is kind of like the smell in your refrigerator, you know. There's a sign that there's something wrong, but you can't quite put your finger on it. But you know if you leave it there, its only going to get worse.

Marie Curie	After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Marie Curie	Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Marie Curie	I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Marie Curie	I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

Marie Curie	Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Marie Curie	Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Marie Curie	There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Barbara Deming	The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.

John Dewey	The media's job is to interest the public in the public interest.

Frederick Douglass	Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

Henry Drummond	All I want is to prevent the clock-stoppers from dumping a load of medieval nonsense into the United States Constitution. -- Inherit the Wind

Henry Drummond	An idea is a greater monument than any cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters -- Inherit the Wind

Henry Drummond	As long as the pre-requisite for that shining paradise is ignorance, bigotry, and hate.....I say to Hell with it! -- Inherit the Wind

Henry Drummond	Fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding. And soon, your Honor, with banners flying and with drums beating we'll be marching backward, backward, through the glorious ages of that sixteenth century, when bigots burned the man who dared to bring enlightenment and intelligence to the human mind. -- Inherit the Wind

Henry Drummond	Realizing that I may prejudice the case of my client, I must tell you that right has no meaning for me whatsoever, but truth has meaning as a direction. -- Inherit the Wind

Henry Drummond	Then why did God plaint us with the power to think? Mr. Brady, why do you deny the one faculty of man that raises him above the other creatures of the earth: the power of his brain to reason? -- Inherit the Wind

Freeman Dyson	Heretics who question the dogmas are needed... I am proud to be a heretic. The world always needs heretics to challenge the prevailing orthodoxies.

Albert Einstein	A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Albert Einstein	A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Albert Einstein	Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Albert Einstein	Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein	Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein	As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

Albert Einstein	Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.

Albert Einstein	Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein	Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Albert Einstein	Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Albert Einstein	Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.

Albert Einstein	Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!

Albert Einstein	I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Albert Einstein	If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I'll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it, too.

Albert Einstein	If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?

Albert Einstein	If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Albert Einstein	It is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult and the good easy.

Albert Einstein	May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

Albert Einstein	Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest.

Albert Einstein	Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Albert Einstein	Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.

Albert Einstein	One thing I have learned in a long life: All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

Albert Einstein	Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein	Problems cannot be solved by the level of awareness that created them.

Albert Einstein	Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein	The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.

Albert Einstein	The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

Albert Einstein	The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Albert Einstein	The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in the United States is closely connected with this.

Albert Einstein	Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein	We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

T.S. Elliot	I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

T.S. Elliot	It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

T.S. Elliot	Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S. Elliot	There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labeled.

T.S. Elliot	There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

T.S. Elliot	Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Ralph Waldo Emerson	A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson	All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson	Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson	Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson	Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson	Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Ralph Waldo Emerson	Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Ralph Waldo Emerson	Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Ralph Waldo Emerson	Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson	Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Ralph Waldo Emerson	Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Ralph Waldo Emerson	It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Ralph Waldo Emerson	Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Ralph Waldo Emerson	Our best thoughts come from others.

Ralph Waldo Emerson	Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson	People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson	Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson	Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson	The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Ralph Waldo Emerson	The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Ralph Waldo Emerson	This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson	To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson	Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson	Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson	We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

Arthur Erickson	Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

Kevin Eubanks	If you do the right thing for the right reasons and you keep a cool head while doing it ... it will all work out. -- Interview on NPR Talk of the Nation.

Euripides	Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Typical Father	If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.

Enrico Fermi	It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi	There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

Alexander Fleming	It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.

Alexander Fleming	One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

Alexander Fleming	When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did.

Jim Fleming	Is there an acceptable place, a meeting point between what is sacred and what is profane where we can all agree?

Henry Ford	The fear of loosing what you have blocks all avenues of innovation and advancement.

Benjamin Franklin	An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin	Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Benjamin Franklin	Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Benjamin Franklin	Since I cannot govern my own tongue, tho' within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongues of others?

Milton Friedman	The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

Thomas Friedman	All of us are smarter than any one of us.

Buckminster Fuller	A trimtab is a nautical device that acts as a small rudder used to turn the larger rudder of giant ships, offering tremendous leverage in terms of steering and changing the direction of the ship. Fuller, drawing upon his naval experience, saw the trimtab as a powerful metaphor for effective individual leadership: small and strategically placed interventions can cause large-scale and profound change. -- Leadership By Design: How One Individual Can Change the World. The Leadership Principles of Buckminster Fuller. Medard Gabel and Jim Walker, 2006.

Buckminster Fuller	All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainable, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less. -- Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

Buckminster Fuller	Always go along with the truth as you know it.

Buckminster Fuller	At the present cosmic moment, muscle, cunning, fear, and selfishness are in powerful control of human affairs. We humans are here in Universe to exercise the Universe-functioning mind. Only mind can apprehend, abide by, and be led by truth. If human mind comes into control of human affairs, the first thing it will do is exercise our option to "make it".

Buckminster Fuller	Computers can remember accurately and can cope with and integrate the vast amounts of all known, relevant information on complex problems, uncopeable with prior to the computer. What we had prior to the computer were respected opinions and only-selfishness-conditioned reflexes on how to cope. Though an opinion might be wrong, there was no practical and convincing way to prove it. Unchallenged , the opinions became respected precedent, then exceptionless concepts, and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.

Buckminster Fuller	Dare to be naive.

Buckminster Fuller	Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Buckminster Fuller	Humans have learned scientifically that the exact truth can never be attained or told. We can reduce the degree of tolerated error, but we have learned physically, as Heisenberg discovered, that exactitude is prohibited, because most exquisite physical experiment has shown that "the act of measuring always alters that which is measured".

Buckminster Fuller	I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

Buckminster Fuller	I see what has to be done and noone is attending to then I dedicate my self to doing it. As soon as I see someone doing what I'm doing, I walk away from it. All that matter is that it is being attended to.

Buckminster Fuller	If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

Buckminster Fuller	It's never too late for the truth.

Buckminster Fuller	Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Buckminster Fuller	People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

Buckminster Fuller	Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction. -- -- The Wellspring of Reality

Buckminster Fuller	Revolution by design and invention is the only revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, and all political systems anywhere.

Buckminster Fuller	Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Buckminster Fuller	Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts taken separately.

Buckminster Fuller	The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

Buckminster Fuller	The youth of humanity all around our planet are intuitively revolting from all sovereignties and political ideologies. The youth of Earth are moving intuitively toward an utterly classless, raceless, omnicooperative, omniworld humanity. Children freed of the ignorantly founded educational traditions and exposed only to their spontaneously summoned, computer-stored and -distributed outflow of reliable-opinion-purged, experimentally verified data, shall indeed lead society to its happy egress from all misinformedly conceived, fearfully and legally imposed, and physically enforced customs of yesterday. They can lead all humanity into omnisuccessful survival as well as entrance into an utterly new era of human experience in an as-yet and ever-will-be fundamentally mysterious Universe. -- The Wellspring of Reality

Buckminster Fuller	Today's news consists of aggregates of fragments. Anyone who has taken part in any event that has subsequently appeared in the news is aware of the gross disparity between the actual and the reported events. The insistence by reporters upon having advance "releases" of what, for instance, convocation speakers are supposedly going to say but in fact have not yet said, automatically discredits the value of the largely prefabricated news. We also learn frequently of prefabricated and prevaricated events of a complex nature purportedly undertaken for purposes either of suppressing or rigging the news, which in turn perverts humanity's tactical information resources. All history becomes suspect. Probably our most polluted resource is the tactical information to which humanity spontaneously reflexes. -- The Wellspring of Reality

Buckminster Fuller	We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

Buckminster Fuller	What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

Buckminster Fuller	While it takes but meager search to discover that many well-known concepts are false, it takes considerable search and even more careful examination of one's own personal experiences and inadvertently spontaneous reflexing to discover that there are many popularly and even professionally unknown, yet nonetheless fundamental, concepts to hold true in all cases and that already have been discovered by other as yet obscure individuals. That is to say that many scientific generalizations have been discovered but have not come to the attention of what we call the educated world at large, thereafter to be incorporated tardily within the formal education processes, and even more tardily, in the ongoing political-economic affairs of everyday life. Knowledge of the existence and comprehensive significance of these as yet popularly unrecognized natural laws often is requisite to the solution of many of the as yet unsolved problems now confronting society. Lack of knowledge of the solution's existence often leaves humanity confounded when it need not be. -- The Wellspring of Reality

Buckminster Fuller	While my contemporaries were looking how to make a living, I decided to focus on what needed to be done for society.

Buckminster Fuller	You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Galileo Galilei	Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

Mohandas Gandhi	A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Mohandas Gandhi	A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Mohandas Gandhi	All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

Mohandas Gandhi	An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Mohandas Gandhi	An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Mohandas Gandhi	Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Mohandas Gandhi	Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Mohandas Gandhi	Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Mohandas Gandhi	Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Mohandas Gandhi	Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

Mohandas Gandhi	First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Mohandas Gandhi	Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

Mohandas Gandhi	Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Mohandas Gandhi	I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

Mohandas Gandhi	I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Mohandas Gandhi	It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Mohandas Gandhi	My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

Mohandas Gandhi	Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Mohandas Gandhi	The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.

Mohandas Gandhi	The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

Mohandas Gandhi	Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Mohandas Gandhi	You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Mohandas Gandhi	You've got to be the change you want to see in the world.

Simon and Garfunkel	"Fools", said I, "You do not know. Silence like a cancer grows. Hear my words that I might teach you. Take my arms that I might reach you". But my words, like silent raindrops fell and echoed in the wells of silence. -- The Sound of Silence

Simon and Garfunkel	And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made. And the sign flashed out its warning in the words that it was forming. And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls. And tenement halls". And whispered in the sounds of silence. -- The Sound of Silence.

Simon and Garfunkel	People talking without speaking. People hearing without listening. People writing songs that voices never share. And no one dared disturb the sound of silence. -- The Sound of Silence

Alberto Giacometti	In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

Bernard Goldberg	The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.

Alan Greenspan	The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

Arlo Guthrie	Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

Arlo Guthrie	I'd rather have friends who care than friends who agree with me.

Woody Guthrie	Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.

Woody Guthrie	Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Eoghan Harris	Factualism is fancy foreplay, it rarely penetrates the truth. Factualism is media masturbation.

Loris Harrow	Notice what no one else notice, and you'll see what no one else knows, What you get is what you get, what you do with what you get, that's more the point. -- City of Ember

Orrin G. Hatch	For almost two decades we alternated as Chairman and Ranking Members of the Senate Labor Committee, now called the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee. During this time we were able to come together in a bipartisan fashion to craft some of this nation's most important health legislation. -- Referring to Ted Kennedy.

Orrin G. Hatch	In the current climate of today's United States Senate it is rare to find opportunities where both sides can come together and work in the middle to craft a solution for our country's problems. Ted Kennedy, with all of his ideological verbosity and idealism was a rare person who at times could put aside differences and look for common solutions. Not many ever got to see that side of him, but as peers and colleagues we were able to share some of those moments.

Vaclav Havel	As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

Jimi Hendrix	Music is my religion.

Hesiod	Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

Hermann Hesse	Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

Cullen Hightower	A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

Cullen Hightower	The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success .

Napolean Hill	Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Adloph Hitler	What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.

Abbie Hoffman	You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Bob Hope	One political party can’t fool all of the people all of the time, that’s why we have two political parties.

Aldous Huxley	After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Phil Jackson	Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

Phil Jackson	Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.

Phil Jackson	I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul.

Phil Jackson	Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Thomas Jefferson	A man is not qualified for a professor, knowing nothing but merely his own profession. He should be otherwise well-educated as to the sciences generally; able to converse understandingly with the scientific men with whom he is associated, and to assist in the councils of the faculty on any subject of science on which they may have occasion to deliberate. Without this, he will incur their contempt, and bring disreputation on the institution.

Thomas Jefferson	Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth.

Thomas Jefferson	Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!

Thomas Jefferson	Every folly must run its round; and so, I suppose, must that of self-learning and self-sufficiency: of rejecting the knowledge acquired in past ages, and starting on the new ground of intuition. When sobered by experience, I hope our successors will turn their attention to the advantages of education. I mean of education on the broad scale.

Thomas Jefferson	He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Thomas Jefferson	I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength: 1. That of general education, to enable every man to judge for himself what will secure or endanger his freedom. 2. To divide every county into hundreds, of such size that all the children of each will be within reach of a central school in it.

Thomas Jefferson	I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

Thomas Jefferson	I hope we shall… crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country. -- wrote Jefferson (to George Logan, 1816. FE 10:69)

Thomas Jefferson	If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Thomas Jefferson	If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

Thomas Jefferson	Information is the currency of democracy.

Thomas Jefferson	May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

Thomas Jefferson	My partiality for that division [of every county into wards] is not founded in views of education solely, but infinitely more as the means of a better administration of our government, and the eternal preservation of its republican principles. The example of this most admirable of all human contrivances in government, is to be seen in our Eastern States; and its powerful effect in the order and economy of their internal affairs, and the momentum it gives them as a nation, is the single circumstance which distinguishes them so remarkably from every other national association.

Thomas Jefferson	Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson	Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Thomas Jefferson	Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Thomas Jefferson	Preach... a crusade against ignorance; establish and improve the law for educating the common people. Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils [of monarchial government].

Thomas Jefferson	Promote in every order of men the degree of instruction proportioned to their condition and to their views in life.

Thomas Jefferson	Such a degree of learning [should be] given to every member of the society as will enable him to read, to judge and to vote understandingly on what is passing.

Thomas Jefferson	The bill for establishing religious freedom... I had drawn in all the latitude of reason and right. It still met with opposition; but with some mutilations in the preamble, it was finally passed; and a singular proposition proved that it's protection of opinion was meant to be universal. Where the preamble declares that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed, by inserting the word 'Jesus Christ,' so that it should read 'a departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion.' The insertion was rejected by a great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and infidel of every denomination.

Thomas Jefferson	The less wealthy people,... by the bill for a general education, would be qualified to understand their rights, to maintain them, and to exercise with intelligence their parts in self-government; and all this would be effected without the violation of a single natural right of any one individual citizen.

Thomas Jefferson	The object [of my education bill was] to bring into action that mass of talents which lies buried in poverty in every country for want of the means of development, and thus give activity to a mass of mind which in proportion to our population shall be the double or treble of what it is in most countries.

Thomas Jefferson	The public education... we divide into three grades: 1. Primary schools, in which are taught reading, writing, and common arithmetic, to every infant of the State, male and female. 2. Intermediate schools, in which an education is given proper for artificers and the middle vocations of life; in grammar, for example, general history, logarithms, arithmetic, plane trigonometry, mensuration, the use of the globes, navigation, the mechanical principles, the elements of natural philosophy, and, as a preparation for the University, the Greek and Latin languages. 3. An University, in which these and all other useful sciences shall be taught in their highest degree; the expenses of these institutions are defrayed partly by the public, and partly by the individuals profiting of them.

Thomas Jefferson	The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More money is now paid for the education of a part than would be paid for that of the whole if systematically arranged.

Thomas Jefferson	The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

Thomas Jefferson	This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force

Thomas Jefferson	This [bill] on education would [raise] the mass of the people to the high ground of moral respectability necessary to their own safety and to orderly government, and would [complete] the great object of qualifying them to secure the veritable aristoi for the trusts of government, to the exclusion of the pseudalists... I have great hope that some patriotic spirit will... call it up and make it the keystone of the arch of our government.

Thomas Jefferson	We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

Thomas Jefferson	With all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing, or that ever did exist.

Ralph Johnson	Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.

Ralph Johnson	Software is not limited by physics, like buildings are. It is limited by imagination, by design, by organization. In short, it is limited by properties of people, not by properties of the world.

James Joyce	Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Carl Jung	Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung	Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Carl Jung	If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Carl Jung	In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Carl Jung	Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Carl Jung	Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Carl Jung	The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Carl Jung	Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Franz Kafka	By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Master Kan	Beware of judgments of others. In this imperfect world in which we live, perfection is an illusion. And so the standards by which we seek to measure it are also, themselves, illusions. If perfection is measured by age, grace, color of skin, color of hair, physical or mental prowess, then we are all lacking. And it is well to remember that the harshest judgments are reserved for ourselves. -- "Kung Fu" NIght of the Owls Day of the Dove 1974 Season 2

Master Kan	Deal with evil through strength - but affirm the good in man through trust. In this way we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good.

Master Kan	Do not see yourself as the center of the universe wise and good and beautiful. Seek rather wisdom, goodness and beauty that you may honor them everywhere. -- Kung Fu television series, 1972

Master Kan	Each man has the right to choose his enemies and his friends. He may choose unwisely, but the decision is his alone, to make. Then he must live with the consequences. And so must his enemies, and his friends. -- "Kung Fu" The Crossties 1974 Season 2

Master Kan	If we have the wisdom to learn, all may teach us their virtues. -- Kung Fu television series 1972

Master Kan	Remember always that a wise man walks with his head bowed; humble like the dust. -- Kung Fu television series 1972

Master Kan	Ten million living things have as many worlds. Do not see yourself as the center of the universe, wise and good and beautiful. Seek, rather, wisdom, goodness, and beauty, that you may honor them everywhere. -- Kung Fu Series 1972 -- Episode # 9

Master Kan	The Yin and the Yang are opposite forces yet they exist together in the harmony of a perfect orb. -- "Kung Fu" The Passion of Chen Yi -- 1974 Episode 34

Master Kan	To suppress a truth is to give it force beyond endurance.

Master Kan	Weakness prevails over strength. Gentleness conquers. Become the calm and restful breeze that tames the violent sea.

Master Kan	When you can take the pebble from my hand, it will be time for you to leave. -- Kung Fu Television Series 1972

Andy Kaufman	I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut-or get angry from the gut.

Andy Kaufman	What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.

Nikos Kazantzakis	By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Edward Kennedy	Some men see things as they are and say ‘why?’. I dream things that never were and say ‘why not? -- In eulogy to his brother Robert Kennedy.

John Maynard Keynes	Ideas shape the course of history.

John Maynard Keynes	The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

John Maynard Keynes	The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

John Maynard Keynes	There is no harm in being sometimes wrong- especially if one is promptly found out.

John Maynard Keynes	Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.

Genghis Khan	It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others must fail. (The antithesis of the Do Good Gauge)

Coretta Scott King	Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Martin Luther King	The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new.

Martin Luther King	The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Martin Luther King	We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.

Micheal Kinsley	In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism.

Michael Korda	The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Charles Kuralt	I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

Dalai Lama	The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Dalai Lama	The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Dalai Lama	There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Anne Lamott	I am very devout, but I don't have certainty or conviction. The opposite of faith isn't doubt; it's certainty.

Anne Lamott	You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

Ann Landers	Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Peter Latham	Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.

Comte de Lautreamont	Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

Henry Lawson	We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.

Stephen Leacock	In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

John Paul Lederach	Using violent means to stop violence is like stomping on a dandelion after it's gone to seed.

David Lehman	Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

Jim Lehrer	As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

Jim Lehrer	Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.

John Lennon	There's nothing you can do that can't be done. Nothing you can sing that can't be sung. Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game. It's easy. All you need is love.

Edward Levi	The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.

Sinclair Lewis	When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross. -- Summarization of his book It Can't Happen Here.

Abraham Lincoln	Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

Henry R. Luce	I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.

R Jeffrey Lustig	Since ancient times statesmen have attempted to create a policy that could harness private interests to the public welfare. The corporation succeeds, by contrast, in harnessing the vast public to a private interest. It subordinates plurality to singularity, the many to the few. -- David S. Allen, Democracy, Inc. (Page 4), Reference to R. Jeffrey Lustig, Corporate Liberalism: The Origins of Modern American Political Theory 1890-1920.

Gustav Mahler	If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Thomas E Mann	In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

Guglielmo Marconi	Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time.

Orison Swett Marden	You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

Bob Marley	One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Mary McAleese	The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.

Bill McCartney	All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.

Robert W McChesney	As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

Robert W McChesney	Basically what they're saying is, if you want to be on TV, if you want to be a credible candidate, you've got to buy ads. And if you're not buying ads, you're not a credible candidate, we don't cover you.

Robert W McChesney	The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.

Dmitri Mendeleev	It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.

Michelangelo	I am still learning.

Michelangelo	I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Paul Elmer More	We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.

Jim Morrison	I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

Van Morrison	You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

Steve Nash	I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.

Scott Nesler	Admiration and pity are extremes in gauging success.

Scott Nesler	Can we fathom more than a subatomic point of view?

Scott Nesler	Certainty needs not faith, doubt has faith of mistakes.

Scott Nesler	Complex problems are not guilty or innocent.

Scott Nesler	Hindsight is 20/20. Forethought needs not corrective lenses.

Scott Nesler	I don't feel this is my intent, though respect that words often misrepresent thought.

Scott Nesler	I have yet to see any hypocrisy in your words, though will not condemn when something you say goes against my beliefs. For it is the dynamics of our differences that has the capability to build a wider understanding.

Scott Nesler	I worry about the fate of the citizens when hate, fear, ignorance, and chaos becomes the most effective methods for political change. Respect, coherency, and community should be given equal opportunity.

Scott Nesler	If your desire is stagnation, finding an argument which is 180 degrees opposed to yours will help. If your desire is to move your argument in a specified direction, finding a similar argument within 15 degrees of separation is a better pool to recruit from.

Scott Nesler	Ignorance is the act of ignoring the collateral damage of ones belief and an apathetic attempt to seek the truth.

Scott Nesler	In the world of discourse objectivity is little more than subjective consensus.

Scott Nesler	It's a fact that facts are misused.

Scott Nesler	It's difficult getting to the root of a problem when the focus is on the fruit.

Scott Nesler	One person's truth is another's slander.

Scott Nesler	Shoot, ready, aim is not a formula for success.

Scott Nesler	Sometimes we become so focused on the syntax of words that meaning is lost. Understanding is an iterative process often involving fuzzy logic. Don't let words get in the way of understanding.

Scott Nesler	The best argument of an average individual is better than the average argument of the best op-ed journalist.

Scott Nesler	The Do Good Gauge will provide an opportunity for the populace to develop their own points of view, thus producing a wider perspective of the truth.

Scott Nesler	The fault nor the solution is with the two party system. The solution resides in the pragmatic and generous spirit of a populace armed with the tools and the media to express their point of view in a respectful and intelligent light.

Scott Nesler	The human race should give respect a voice.

Scott Nesler	The human species lives in a world where understanding partners with conflict.

Scott Nesler	The lack of a common language is a barrier. Even with the same dialect, each technology contains its own obtrusive jargon. Joining together a diverse group in a common language requires time and resources which many are not motivated to provide.

Scott Nesler	The problem is not our governance, it is that the vast majority of the citizens don't know how to play the game. Ideologies serving a minuscule point of view have figured out how to pool their resources to gain favor in the system. There is no single ideology representative of the populace. Until the whole starts intelligently collaborating towards a common good expect to continue interpreting the system as irrational. Internet technology can alter this irrational exuberance of power.

Scott Nesler	The time to change the minds of a herd is not during a stampede off a cliff.

Scott Nesler	The world is not flat nor is an argument.

Scott Nesler	There is no right to be heard.

Scott Nesler	Those who control the media have a monopoly in the debate.

Scott Nesler	We must guard against the tenacity of arguments with hidden agendas.

Scott Nesler	You can't force a point of view. You can only guide it with the clarity of your perspective.

Peter Neumann	Remember, extremism in the nondefense of moderation is not a virtue.

Isaac Newton	I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Isaac Newton	If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Isaac Newton	If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton	Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Isaac Newton	To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Isaac Newton	We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Richard M Nixon	Solutions are not the answer.

Richard M Nixon	The press is the enemy.

Richard M Nixon	We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Richard M Nixon	We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Richard M Nixon	You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

Donald Norman	I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

Flannery O'Connor	Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

Flannery O'Connor	Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Flannery O'Connor	I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

Tim O'Reilly	Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.

Barack Obama	There is not a liberal America and a conservative America. There is the United States of America.

Barack Obama	When each of us looks beyond our own short-term interests to the wider set of obligations we have to each other - that's when we succeed.

J. Robert Oppenheimer	No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

J. Robert Oppenheimer	There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

J. Robert Oppenheimer	When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

George Orwell	The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

Thomas Paine	A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Thomas Paine	Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Thomas Paine	Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

Thomas Paine	Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

Thomas Paine	I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Thomas Paine	If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.

Thomas Paine	It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

Thomas Paine	It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Thomas Paine	My mind is my own church.

Thomas Paine	Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is none more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory in itself, than this thing called Christianity.

Thomas Paine	Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Thomas Paine	Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

Thomas Paine	That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

Thomas Paine	The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

Thomas Paine	The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

Thomas Paine	To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

Thomas Paine	Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.

Thomas Paine	We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

Thomas Paine	We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Thomas Paine	When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Amanda Palmer	Everyones got to stop thinking there's an answer. The answer is there's an infinite number of answers. -- The Dresdon Dolls

Sebastien Paquet	I learned from physics that it is often best not to rush in to solve a problem. The time you invest in really understanding a problem is typically given to you back several-fold: - It simplifies the problem at hand; - It creates new learning in your mind, which will make subsequent similar problems easier to tackle. Second, computer science taught me that there are many ways to skin a cat. Programming is essentially a communication challenge. It is about clarifying initially fuzzy concepts and relations and representing them in code. The way you do this determines how much or how little trouble you're setting yourself up for -- From his blog What Physics and Computer Science Taught Me about Thinking

Blaise Pascal	Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Blaise Pascal	Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Blaise Pascal	Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

Blaise Pascal	He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

Blaise Pascal	I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal	If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Blaise Pascal	Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Blaise Pascal	It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Blaise Pascal	We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

George S Patton	If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

Randy Pausch	I'm a scientist who sees inspiration as the ultimate tool for doing good.

Jean-Luc Picard	If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for what we really are.

Jean-Luc Picard	Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well camouflaged.

Jean-Luc Picard	You can commit no mistake and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.

Pablo Picasso	An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Pablo Picasso	Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Pablo Picasso	The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.

Pablo Picasso	The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Pablo Picasso	You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

Daniel H. Pink	It's in our nature to seek purpose. But that nature is now being revealed and expressed on a scale that is demographically unprecedented and, until recently, scarcely imaginable. The consequences could rejuvenated our business and remake our world. -- Drive, Chapter 6. Purpose.

Daniel H. Pink	We know from statisticians that demographics is destiny. And we know from the Rolling Stones that you can't always get what you want. What we don't know is what happens when these two indomitable principles sit down, pour themselves a drink, and get to know each other better.

Robert Pirsig	Any effort which has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

Robert Pirsig	One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry cannot be true, it can only be advantageous.

Robert Pirsig	The truth knocks on your door and you say, go away I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

Plato	Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Master Po	Even one of the royal house, should not punish an old man twice for the same offense. -- Kung Fu television series 1972

Master Po	Never assume because a man has no eyes he cannot see. --- Kung Fu Television series 1972

Master Po	Old Man, how is it that you hear these things? Young Man, how is it that you do not? -- Kung Fu Television Series 1972

Master Po	Superstition is like a magnet. It pulls you in the direction of your belief.

Master Po	Who among us is without flaw? -- Kung Fu television series 1972

Master Po	Young Caine, when I was a boy, I fell into a hole in the ground and I was broken and could not climb out. I might have died there but a stranger came along and saved me. He said it was his obligation. That for help he had once received, he must in return help ten others each of whom would then help ten others so that good deeds would spread out like the ripples from a pebble in a pond. I was one of his ten and you became one of mine. And now I pass this obligation on to you. -- Kung Fu Televison Series 1972 - Episode #6

John Charles Polanyi	It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.

Katherine Anne Porter	Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.

Dennis Prager	Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

The Pragmatic Programmer	Conventional wisdom says that once a project is in the coding phase, the work is mostly mechanical, transcribing the design into executable statements. We think that this attitude is the single biggest reason that many programs are ugly, inefficient, poorly structured, unmaintainable, and just plain wrong.

Oscar Romero	Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.

Franklin Roosevelt	Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Franklin Roosevelt	It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Franklin Roosevelt	Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Franklin Roosevelt	Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Franklin Roosevelt	We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

Theodore Roosevelt	I am a part of everything that I have read.

Theodore Roosevelt	It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Bertrand Russell	I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Bertrand Russell	The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Carl Sagan	If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Carl Sagan	Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Carl Sagan	Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Carl Sagan	Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Carl Sagan	Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Carl Sagan	Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Carl Sagan	The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Carl Sagan	The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

Carl Sagan	We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Carl Sagan	Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

Jonas Salk	Neither wisdom nor good will is now dominant. Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

Jonas Salk	Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience ... it's just chance that I happened to be here at this particular time when there was available and at my disposal the great experience of all the investigators who plodded along for a number of years.

Jonas Salk	Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

Jonas Salk	Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun? -- In answer to Edward R. Murrow's question, who owns the patent on this vaccine?

Jonas Salk	What is … important is that we — number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other. The best from the best, and the best from those who, perhaps, might not have the same endowment. And so this bespeaks an entirely different philosophy — a different way of life — a different kind of relationship — where the object is not to put down the other, but to raise up the other.

Jonas Salk	When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it is that sense I speak of evolution as an error-making and error-correctiong process. And if we can be ever so much better — ever so much slightly better — at error correcting than at error making, then we'll make it.

Sallust	Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.

Robert H. Schuller	You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.

Charles Schulz	There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.

Albert Schweitzer	To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.

Pete Seeger	I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

Pete Seeger	I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.

Pete Seeger	I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

Pete Seeger	I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

Pete Seeger	One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.

Nassau William Senior	The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognized, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.

Anna Howard Shaw	Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.

Sargent Shriver	Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.

Herbert Simon	Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

Herbert Simon	Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

Herbert Simon	Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.

Herbert Simon	Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.

Herbert Simon	One finds limits by pushing them.

Herbert Simon	Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves.

Herbert Simon	The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.

Herbert Simon	The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the "hard" sciences so brilliantly successful.

Herbert Simon	The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.

Herbert Simon	There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.

Herbert Simon	What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

Upton Sinclair	It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Blog Comment Slashdot	The problem isn't that Beck and Limbaugh are conservative. It is that they are intellectually dishonest. William F. Buckley was conservative as hell, but you had to admire his intellect, education and ability to present a cogent argument. Beck is a buffoon who uses every logical fallacy in the book. As soon as Limbaugh says, "I don't just make this stuff up;" you know he's just making it up.

Winston Smith	A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects. And its object is not victory over Eurasia or Eastasia, but to keep the very structure of society intact. -- George Orwell's 1984

Todd Solondz	When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.

Art Spiegelman	With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

Anonymous Professor Stanford University	The only advice I might offer to your design process is to imitate nature: use evolution. By this I mean to design many experiments, test your assumptions and designs with those you are designing for, and iteratively improve your designs based upon what you learn.

Johannes Stark	Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed.

Maurice Strong	One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

Deirdre Sullivan	My real battle is doing good versus doing nothing at all.

John J. Sweeney	For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.

Henry David Thoreau	I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, to life itself than this incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau	A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Henry David Thoreau	Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Henry David Thoreau	Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Henry David Thoreau	Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau	However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.

Henry David Thoreau	Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Henry David Thoreau	There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

Edward Thorndike	Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.

Edward Tufte	The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

Mark Twain	Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

Mark Twain	Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Mark Twain	There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Neil deGrasse Tyson	After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?

Neil deGrasse Tyson	When Ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination.

Morihei Ueshiba	The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.

Unattributed	You don't know what you don't know until somebody tells you.

Karl Urban	That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do.

Sim Van der Ryn	The best design experience occur when no one can claim credit for the solution – when the solution grows and evolves organically out a particular situation, process, and pattern of communication.

Voltaire	As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire	Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Voltaire	The best is the enemy of the good.

Roger von Oech	Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

Jimmy Wales	Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

Jimmy Wales	My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.

Jimmy Wales	People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.

Jimmy Wales	The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.

Henry A. Wallace	This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.

Andy Warhol	The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

George Washington	If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Randi Weingarten	This is not a Nike commercial. Just do it. That doesn't work in teaching. -- American RadioWorks -- Testing Teachers

H.G. Wells	There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

Oscar Wilde	By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Oscar Wilde	In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Oscar Wilde	It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Oscar Wilde	Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Oscar Wilde	The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Robert Anton Wilson	Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.

Robert Anton Wilson	Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.

Woodrow Wilson	The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

John Wooden	Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

Bob Woodward	I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.

Elizabeth Wordsworth	If all good people were clever, and all clever people were good, the world would be nicer than ever, we thought that it possibly could. But somehow, 'tis seldom or never that the two hit off as they should; For the good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good.

Howard Zinn	Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.

Howard Zinn	Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

Howard Zinn	If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

The Do Good Gauge by Scott Nesler is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

The Do Good Gauge Measuring the Democratic Value of an Intelligent Argument

Relevant Quotes

The Do Good Gauge

Measuring the Democratic Value of an Intelligent Argument